Too Many Clients by Rex Stout

Too Many Clients by Rex Stout

Rex Stout certainly knows how to catch a reader’s interest. This time Archie Goodwin is asked by a man to shadow him to find out who has been tailing him—except that the man who hires him is not the man he says he is. That man is already dead. And that’s how Stout starts a case in which Wolfe is desperate to find a client who can pay him to solve a mystery that has captured his interest. It’s fascinating from start to finish—and I’m pleased that I identified the probable culprit early in the story. But like Wolfe, I had to wait to find out why that person would have committed murder.